Please make the new encounter system not base the encounters exactly on the player's position. A random offset of maybe 50-100 meters from the player would be much better. It's like the a17 and earlier "wandering" hordes' tendency to pass straight through the player's position every single time unless you happened to be moving at significant speed when they spawned.
Ride a bicycle in the desert or wasteland biomes, and you'll be swimming in rotten flesh and feathers from divebombing vultures. Or, raid a Doggos poi if you're really hurting for rotten flesh. Street gore blocks give both flesh and nitrate, I believe. I've never needed rotten flesh (never bothered with hobo stew) before, so now I have a reason to harvest it. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.The planter plate first came up as Chiko's suggestion, many pages ago, and already back then Gazz mentioned that planted crops would float 1 meter above them. So yeah, probably not as easy as it sounds.
Personally, I always surrounded my farms with wooden plates just for aestethics.
My bigger concern is that my farm will shrink from six or seven 10x10 fields each with their own crop, down to.. maybe a tenth of that(?) depending on how much rotten flesh can be found. I hope the recipe will be balanced in the end, but hey that's what experimentals are for.
Not on top of boulders.
I see Trolland has come out to play today. Got any new puzzles to distract us with?I am 100% certain a charcoal filter will be added....but it will necessitate the removal of drinking from the game at the same time.
One idea would be to have the survivor "wake up" in a POI compound (maybe inside a first aid tent) where they are relatively safe and can explore a bit before venturing forth. It would have the same invulnerability as a trader, with some loot containers they could search that contain a few basic items (like what we start with now). They'd have to leave it to complete the starter quest, and at some point the gates would lock and they wouldn't be able to get back in.
Couldn't you just make it so the plates give the aesthetic and function of a farm box but not actually raise the voxel. So in reality you're planting it directly on the ground below the plate and not actually on the plate. Think of them like ghost boxes/plates.
...and it wouldn't take but a weekend for someone to make. You could load quests into the trader's dialogue and go a lot more in-depth, AND it would mean regulars could "Jump right in" by selecting nav or Rwg, but alas, apparently it's more "clunky" then half explaining systems and removing other systems entirely.
Maybe a new tool that acts like a smoother? On map generation there is a smoother routine that runs that makes the voxels on a slope into a smooth shape. You can erase that by placing frames to get the 1 meter jumps. But if there was a way to force a redraw of the smoother in an area, it might fill in those jumps and gaps between blocks.
+1 to this
